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acting action actors Adam and Eve Adam's angel Anglo-Norman Antichrist apocryphal appears Arras audience Bodel's Cain Carmina Burana century ceremony characters Chester Plays chorus Christ Christian Christmas church clergy clerical Corpus Christi Corpus Christi plays courtly cycle plays Dame Douce dance dancing-song Daniel death Devil dialogue Easter Easter sepulchre Easter vigil Emperor English drama entertainment fairies feast Feuillée figures folk-play French gestures Harrowing of Hell hell Herod Holy Roman Emperor impersonation Jehan Bodel king Latin liturgical drama liturgical plays lord ludus Magi manuscript Mary medieval Middle Ages Middle English mime mimic miracle monk motifs mummers musical Mystère d'Adam Ordo Ordo Virtutum Paradise Paris Passion performance play's plough poet popular prophets religious drama responsory resurrection Rikiers Roman Ruodlieb Satan satirical scene secular sepulchre shepherds singing social song stage story suggest sung tavern theme tion Towneley tradition vernacular Virgin Visitatio words Young